More links and websites
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A dog's show
A 1981 episode of the popular series showing farm-dog trials, on the NZ On Screen website.
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Dogstar
A 1986 documentary about working dogs on sheep farms, on the NZ On Screen website.
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New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Association
This site lists the year’s events and results, and has a newsletter and other information about dog training and breeding.
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Working dog index
This page on the Lifestyle Block website features a variety of articles on training, feeding and housing farm dogs.
More suggestions and sources
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Ball, Murray. Footrot Flats: the dog strips. Auckland: Hodder Moa, 2007.
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Gordon, John. Three sheep and a dog: an insider’s view of New Zealand sheep dog trialling. Auckland: Reed, 1998.
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Hartley, C. W. G. The shepherd’s dogs – their training for mustering and trial work. 3rd ed. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1968.
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Winstanley, Lionel. Hobnails, hounds and humour: autobiography of a high country musterer, farmer, farm manager, dog trial competitor. Blenheim: L. Winstanley, 1994.
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Oliver, Michael, and Sheild, Tony. I am a working dog: natural training for sheepdogs. Dunedin: Longacre, 2004.
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Rennie, Neil. Working dogs. Auckland: Shortland, 1984.
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Newton, Peter. Wayleggo. Wellington, Reed, 1966.